Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peak in Big Three Meet...
After reaching a peak of $2.8 billion in 1929, total British holdings in Canada declined slowly during the 1930s, then rapidly after the outbreak of World War II as the British sold their overseas properties to pay for the war. In 1949, the trend was reversed, and as Britons built up their dollar reserves, they turned once more to Canadian ventures. But Britain, for many years the leading outside investor in Canada, has long since yielded first place to the U.S. The British stake in Canada at the end of 1952: $1.8 billion; U.S. holdings: $8 billion...
After the game, the Yale coach implied that his eleven chose to give its peak performance against Princeton, and could have won Saturday if it had saved the effort for that instead. The rest of the 65,000 spectators can draw their own inferences from the game, however...
...jumper does not usually reach his peak until the age of 15 (ten years after most race horses have retired). The U.S.'s best jumper in recent years was Democrat, an Army remount horse, who was retired, finally, at 20, still in top form...
When the ships were a few hours at sea, Balboa emerged from his barrel and presented himself to the commander of the expedition. How he rose from his cramped beginnings to the glory of a peak in Darién,* where he discovered and claimed for God and Castile the Pacific Ocean and all the lands adjoining, is a fascinating story; it is told in fine detail in a solidly researched new book, Balboa of Darién, by Kathleen Romoli...